Where to go from here?
Well i've finished the tutorial for c++ both on this website and on learncpp.com and I'm not sure where to go next, i eventually would like to go into gamedevelopment and im trying my luck with programing as at 18, I have yet to finish highschool. If anyone has any suggestions for me please, thanks for you help.
i think you need to wait a couple of years and study more before going to game development.. anyway if you think you know C++ good enough start learning another programming language JAVA or PHYTON or C#, you can only benefit from it.
Highschool will take me about a month to finish up, defenetly do need a couple years i took JS but never java. But more specifically i wanted to know where to go from here with c++ where can i learn how to actually build usefull programs what libraries are god for say a 2d scroller or a text game?
Google:
SFML
SDL
- These will allow you to use graphics.
Also:
http://www.gamecareerguide.com/
http://www.sloperama.com/advice.html
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/
http://projecteuler.net/
If you wanna go into game development, first read about all the jobs. Later(if still interested), you can start programming your own games,(start simple - Tic-Tac-Toe, pong, snake, tetris, arcanoids, sidescrollers, etc.), and don't focus on making Best Game Ever - as you will fail quickly and become annoyed and/or bored - but focus rather on learning. Every game you make - it has to learn you something.
Later, you can try Unity or UDK(also google!)
If you wanna go serious, be ready for spending much time reading, coding and lurking in internet. You must have ability to find resources/knowledge you need by yourself.
However, if you encounter some programming-specific questions, I reccomend this site:
http://stackoverflow.com/
And later
http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/?as=1
And furthermore, you may want to check out these sites:
https://www.edx.org/
https://www.udacity.com/
https://www.coursera.org/
And most important of all:
http://google.com/ (seriously!)
These sites should be sufficient for now. You can find there all you want to know now. And after reading this stuff, you should have idea about what to look for and what to do.
Good luck!
SFML
SDL
- These will allow you to use graphics.
Also:
http://www.gamecareerguide.com/
http://www.sloperama.com/advice.html
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/
http://projecteuler.net/
If you wanna go into game development, first read about all the jobs. Later(if still interested), you can start programming your own games,(start simple - Tic-Tac-Toe, pong, snake, tetris, arcanoids, sidescrollers, etc.), and don't focus on making Best Game Ever - as you will fail quickly and become annoyed and/or bored - but focus rather on learning. Every game you make - it has to learn you something.
Later, you can try Unity or UDK(also google!)
If you wanna go serious, be ready for spending much time reading, coding and lurking in internet. You must have ability to find resources/knowledge you need by yourself.
However, if you encounter some programming-specific questions, I reccomend this site:
http://stackoverflow.com/
And later
http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/?as=1
And furthermore, you may want to check out these sites:
https://www.edx.org/
https://www.udacity.com/
https://www.coursera.org/
And most important of all:
http://google.com/ (seriously!)
These sites should be sufficient for now. You can find there all you want to know now. And after reading this stuff, you should have idea about what to look for and what to do.
Good luck!
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Absolutly amazing advice thankyou so much. I will start with basic tic tac toe i was going to go along the route of SFML right now i am curious though i need a tutorial on how to learn that :/
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